The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950

Otto Paul Hermann Diels

Prize share: 1/2

Kurt Alder

Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950 was awarded jointly to Otto Paul Hermann Diels and Kurt Alder "for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis."

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